One of the benefits of services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime is that they allow TV stars, liberated from the confines of network television and cable, to try som
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You know those kids who didn't give a shit about fashion or football but piled onto beanbags in the basement every Friday to watch the freakiest low-budget camp horr
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Deepwater Horizon is the most entertaining Hollywood disaster movie in years. I'm sorry ? is that a terrible thing to say? Peter Berg's film is based on the true sto
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I'm letting you take a picture of me naked and showing the world. That's what globetrotting DJ Steve Aoki told Justin Krook when he agreed to be the subject of t
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These are the images that have marked me and leave me wondering still. That's how Kirsten Johnson prefaces Cameraperson, made up of footage she has collected ove
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In this age of billion-dollar, candy-colored, fully digital child-distraction movie-making, the new chatty-animal adventure comedy Storks wouldn't have to be goo
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Pasolini's Salò meets red Solo cups in Goat, Andrew Neel's deep, dank dive into the depravities of frat pledging that operates as its own kind of hazing ritual. Poi
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Judy Davis doesn't like the expression scene-stealing, even though it precisely describes her performance in The Dressmaker. I always sort of cringe when I hear that
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Set aside all human decency and imagine, for a moment, that you're Kim Jong-il. Imagine it's 1978, and you're pushing 40, still Great Leader's son rather
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A woman wears sunglasses, a tight red dress, matching long gloves and red lipstick. She stands and smokes a cigarette, ostensibly watching a rugby game, but really t
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Over the last 10 days, the Toronto International Film Festival has screened hundreds of movies from all across the world. L.A. Weekly's April Wolfe and Michael N
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We've come a long way since American Psycho. And also not.When co-writer/director Mary Harron premiered her Bret Easton Ellis adaptation in 2000, the kneejerk assump
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